Deana's 2nd finish in 2014

I am so pleased to announce another finish this year!!  I finished quilting this quilt for mom.

ANN: My latest Baby Quilt

After talking with Dorine today, I realized that I had not posted this baby quilt on this blog. My cute newest grandson was born in June and I got his quilt finished for Christmas.

 I have a friend who has a new long arm machine and she invited me to try my luck at using it. We chose this cute frog design, and his siblings and cousins loved it.

 And the back side

Deana: March Goals

I have lofty goals for March.  I hope I don't set them too high, but I was rewarded last month with high success.  I am hoping for a repeat.

By the end  of the month I should have TWO completely finished quilts and one top done.  

I will be linking my finishes with A Lovely Year of Finishes.

Here are my March Goals:

1. Finish 8 more blocks in Dear Jane.  The patterns are shown below.

 

2.  Hand embroider the "Holly" strip in my snowman quilt.  It is the blank strip under the music strip.

 

3. Finish this Windmill quilt top complete with borders.

4.  Make 8 more Windmill blocks for the second quilt I am making out of them.  It is the exact same colors.

5.  I hope to finish the quilting for Mom's quilt  in March.

Finished March 8th

6. Make ten more blocks in my Christmas Log Cabin quilt.

 7.  Finish kitting my round robin.  It needs to arrive at its new home by March 15th.  I cannot post a picture because it is a secret.  We all sent each other fabric and the receiver selects a pattern, cuts it out, kits it, and sews up the first kit.  The owner of the quilt will receive a finished quilt at the end.

Finished March 7, 2014

8.  Design a quilt for the red and white quilt challenge. 

Finished March 7th 2014

 

9.  Machine quilt and bind Jessi's Log Cabin.

Deana: Goals Accomplished!!

I got so much done in February thanks to A Lovely Year of Finishes.  Below is what I accomplished:

Here were my February Goals:

1.  I hope to complete 8 Dear Jane blocks this month which comes to two a week.  It is hard to do more than that with those little 4 1/2" blocks.  You just need a break from them.

BEFORE:

 

FINISHED FEBRUARY 26TH.

2.  Finish the words in "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" as well as the strip of music.  This is a hand embroidery quilt.  I will be at some wrestling tournaments this month where I can do hand work. 

BEFORE:  

FINISHED FEBRUARY 9, 2013  --

I actually finished the entire section...hooray! 

This is where it goes on the quilt.

 


 3.  Finish the quilting on my mom's Utah Quilt.  It is pretty well on its way.  I machine quilt with a regular Bernina.  I don't have a longarm, so it takes me a lot longer.  The strings you see are basting stitches.    

BEFORE:

 Below is my favorite block in the Utah quilt...the covered wagon with a little quilt in the back.

 FINISHED FEBRUARY 5, 2013  -- HOORAY!!

4.  I hope to get 10 WindMill blocks done this month.  They sew up pretty fast except for the black applique centers which I do by hand.  I will be making two queen sized quilts out of these, one for each of my daughters.  I will need a total of 40 blocks.  

BEFORE:

FINISHED FEBRUARY 24TH.
My goal was 10 blocks and I finished 14 and the last three are very close.

 5.  I hope to get this other quilt of my mom's quilted this month as well. 

 I did not finish this goal but I made great progress.  

I will post a picture next month when it is done.

6.  Number 6 is my Christmas Log Cabin Quilt.  I hope to complete 10 blocks for it.  It looks a little off because it is laying on top of my "Dear Jane" quilt on my design wall.  My snowman quilt is also on the bottom under it.   

BEFORE:
(Sorry, Dear Jane is behind it.)

COMPLETED FEBRUARY 21.  My goal was 10 blocks and I made 16.  Hooray!

 

Deana's WIP Wednesday Progress

Yippee!  I made a bit of forward progress today.  I made three Dear Jane blocks.  My goal is 2 a week and I didn't get any done last week.  At least I got caught up this week.  They are SEW DARN CUTE!  The teaspoon emphasizes how small they are.

The following is my report on Dear Jane:

Total pieces:  1,940

Total hours:  75

Total minutes:  50

 G9 is called "Mary's Journey".  It has 33 pieces and took me an hour and 15 minutes to paper piece.  This one is my very favorite of the last four.  It went together slick too.

G-11 is called "Decisions, Decisions".  It has 25 pieces, was paper pieced, and took me 29 minutes.  I REALLY like this one, but I wish I ha strategically placed the red flowers in the yellow fabric.  Two blocks don't even have bits of red in them.  Oh well.  It is done now.

G-10 is called "Woven Meadow", took an hour and 1 minute, and has 39 pieces.  It was paper pieced.  It is a simple little block, but I think it is kind of cute.

I finished up G8 "Justin's Comet" yesterday.  It has 24 pieces and took me 50 minutes to paper piece.

And I made progress on the final 5 blocks in my Windmill quilt.  As you can see three still need the outside square attached ad the center circles.  The two with circles still need to be hand stitched on..  These blocks have been SO MUCH FUN to make.  They are addicting.  It's a good thing I have another quilt of them cut out and ready to go.

I am linking up with WOW at Esther's Block and Whip Wednesday  on Freshly Pieced tonight.

Deana: Tuesday Dear Jane Progress

I was able to get one Dear Jane done tonight and another one close.  All the pieces in the second block are pieced, they just need to be trimmed and assembled.  I will post names and time spent/pieces counted etc tomorrow.  The rotary cutter is in the photo to show the size of these blocks.  Dear Janes are only 4 1/2" finished.  They are crazy.

I only have two more blocks to complete this week and I will have met my Dear Jane goal for the month.  

I am linking up with Quilt Story's blog on Fabric Tuesday, Show N Tell Tuesday, and Sew Cute.

Fun, scrappy quilt

Here is a fun, scrappy quilt.  I could also use my 2 1/2" strips for this.

quilting thread

She uses Sew Fine by Superior Threads.

I wanted to link to this post because I don't like how heavy the thread looks when I machine quilt.  I wondered what other quilters use.  I will have to try "Sew Fine".

Perfect quilting for my snowman embroidery quilt

Perfect quilting for my snowman embroidery quilt!  These ideas are fabulous for a windblown snow look.

Deana: Another round complete

I am so happy to say that I got another round finished on my Christmas Log Cabin quilt!  Yay!!  I absolutely love this quilt with every round I add.  I can't wait to see the next go 'round.

My goal for February was 10 blocks but it took 16 for the round.  I am pretty far ahead of schedule on this project and it feels so good.

Starch

I cannot find the recipe I tried and liked, but here is a link to some other ideas.

Here is another source.

Candy Cane Stars

Candy Cane Stars would be a good project for my 2 1/2" strips as well. Hmm...  Trying to decide.

Deana: Whip Wednesday and WOW

Here is the update on my progress the past couple of days:

I have basted Mom's quilt for machine quilting.

I am currently basting Jessi's Log Cabin quilt for machine quilting.

I have made four more windmill blocks for Jessi's quilt.  Sorry, they are on the design wall next to Dear Jane and still need applique centers.

Quilt for Justin

I just found this beautiful quilt at Fiberobsessive.  I think it needs to go on the list for one for Justin or Jim.

Dorine: Scrappy Quilt

After I posted the baby quilt, I remembered I had a quilt I finished last fall that didn't get posted.  This one is made from random scraps.  It was really fun to do.  I cut 12 1/2 squares of batting, put a colorful piece of fabric in the middle, then stitched the random scraps on like a log cabin pattern.  With the black strips between the blocks and around the borders, the colorful scraps really show up.  What a fun way to use up all those scraps!

Dorine: Wiggles and Giggles for my next grandson

The last baby quilt I posted was almost two years ago for my grandson, Brycen.  Now he is awaiting a baby brother.  I made this "Wiggles and Giggles" quilt for the new baby who will be named Colby Howard.  He is due in May, but we will be gone on our next  mission before that, so I had to get it done early.

2 1/2" strip quilt idea

2 1/2" strip quilt idea

I am collecting ideas for my 2 1/2" strips I won from the Brown Bag Swap a couple of years ago.